Gen/Sex
The Gen/Sex Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
The Gender and Sexuality Working Group (Gen/Sex) provides a regular forum for discussions related to gender, sexuality, feminism, queer and trans theory, and their intersections with other fields. The group convenes several times per semester to discuss readings and provides a space for graduate students and faculty in and outside the Penn community to present works-in-progress. Invited speakers in past years have included Leo Bersani, Stephen Best, Teresa de Lauretis, Sharon Marcus, José Esteban Muñoz, Jordy Rosenberg, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins. Occasionally, Gen/Sex will organize conferences and invite a group of scholars to Penn to collaboratively interrogate or explore the field(s) at large. The most recent of these include 2019's "Queer Urgencies" and 2013's "Queer Methods."
Gen/Sex is coordinated by Austin Svedjan. Heather K. Love serves as Faculty Mentor.
Please direct any questions or requests to be added to the listserv to svedjan@sas.upenn.edu.
Past Events
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Queer Urgencies Conference Planning Meeting
September 13, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm -
Mecca Sullivan (Bryn Mawr), WIP: “‘Let the Madness in the Music Get to You’: Poetic Possibilities from the Black Sonic Underground (Or, ‘Sound Carries’)"
April 3, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Carolyn Dinshaw
March 29, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Victor Mendoza Talk
*rescheduled from 2/8/18*February 22, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Ariel Goldberg Talk
February 12, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Jess Shollenberger WIP
"Rose Rocks, or Maybe Rock Roses: Elizabeth Bishop's Passion for Accuracy"October 9, 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
"Welcome Back Meeting and Discussion of Victor Mendoza’s Metroimperial Intimacies (introduction)"
October 3, 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Conversation with Dr. Ania Loomba and Dr. Melissa Sanchez on "Studying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Earlier Periods: Lessons, Limits, and Intersections"
September 27, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Erica Kaufman, “Queer Pedagogy.”
April 27, 2017 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm -
Laura Frost “A Century of Female Orgasm.”
April 20, 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm